“Now we’re gonna get big government”

July 22, 2007|Richard Nikoley||

The quote is Ron Paul, according to his spokesman Eric Dondero, spoken as "one of the first things he said" after 9/11. This, from a substantial Christopher Caldwell piece on Ron Paul in today’s The New York Times.

Dondero parted with Ron Paul on bad terms, so the story goes, and is opposing Paul in his simultaneous Congressional run.

Dondero’s reciting of the quote and Caldwell’s reporting of it is intended to be an indictment of Paul.

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4 Comments

  1. Buckwheat on July 22, 2007 at 17:28

    Paul was right, of course.



  2. Eric Dondero on July 28, 2007 at 09:53

    Sure, Paul may have been right in retrospect, but the audacity to say this immediately after the attacks.

    Is that the first thing you thought of on 9/11?

    Or was it the horror of seeing fellow Americans jumping off the Twin Towers to their deaths from the 110th floor>

    Did you make such a comment to your spouse, girlfriend, family, friends, co-workers while you were watching the tragedy unfold on Fox or CNN on that day? Or, did you more rightly gasp at the horror, and give your wife/girlfriend a hug or kiss and tell her that you loved her? Or, perhaps did the same for your kids?

    It'd have been one thing if my former boss had said this a couple weeks after 9/11, but it was the very day of the tragedy.

    Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
    US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
    1997-2003



  3. Richard Nikoley on July 29, 2007 at 06:21

    What's your point?



  4. Richard Nikoley on July 29, 2007 at 06:22

    What's your point?